Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert . |
| 2 | For example , a recent survey of young people 's attitude towards the monarchy asked which were the most hardworking royals ( ’ Young Guardian Garrick James Youth Survey' , Guardian , 29.4.1987 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , the man for whom the Palazzo was built claimed it was the most beautiful house in Christendom . |
| 4 | Kenny Roberts remarked he was the most exciting 500 rider of all to watch , fighting his bucking YZR all the way , elbows jutting out as he attacked . |
| 5 | James thought you were the most delicious creature he had ever seen . ’ |
| 6 | Honor thought she was the most exquisite girl she had ever seen and her heart sank lower than ever . |
| 7 | But when she smiled at me like that , I thought she was the most beautiful woman in England . |
| 8 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |
| 9 | I felt it was the most likely place . |
| 10 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 11 | Grimma once said she thought it was the most astonishing thing in the world . ’ |
| 12 | But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show . |
| 13 | I thought it was the most important time in Natasha 's life and I was n't there . |
| 14 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 15 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was little , I thought he was the most wonderful man in the whole world . |
| 17 | I thought he was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen certainly the most beautiful male . |
| 18 | This Greek myth tells us the story of Narcissus who thought he was the most beautiful young man in all of Ancient Greece . |
| 19 | Harley Street psychoanalyst Michael Whitenburgh admitted it was the most bizarre case he had ever come across . |
| 20 | A pair of old shoes was put aside to be thrown out before Granny remembered they were the most comfortable she 'd ever had . |
| 21 | He said , he said I 'm the most beautifulest girl in the world ! |
| 22 | From stories handed down , it seems that the Frenchman saw Marama , insisted on painting her straight away , and then said she was the most beautiful woman he 'd ever seen and begged her to come and live with him . |
| 23 | The depths that Ace seemed prepared to sink to just to hurt and wound her were the most painful things she 'd experienced since the start of their relationship . |
| 24 | By the time he left it was the most respected faculty of divinity in English universities . |
| 25 | ‘ Somebody bought Stevie Wonder a cheese grater for Christmas and he said it was the most violent novel he 'd ever read ! ’ |
| 26 | He said it was the most expensive accident he 's ever had . |
| 27 | Heather even said it was the most interesting service she 'd been too , and I think Mum and Dad lapped up the excitement and atmosphere of celebration in the packed church — a far cry from Dalseattie ! |
| 28 | He said it was the most joyful moment of his life . ’ |
| 29 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |
| 30 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |